| Kasz216 said: The Dreamcast had some great software sales by the way. Their opening year sales of software were higher then the PS2s opening year when it came to software. The whole Piracy thing didn't become that widespread until long after Sega had cashed in on the dreamcast. Their early software and hardware sales were record breaking. Piracy isn't what crashed the Dreamcast, it was anticipation for the Playstation 2. It's early killing off of the Saturn and just the general failures that hurt it's brandname before it caused it's eventual downfall. Piracy is why people continued to buy Sega Dreamcasts after it was officially discontinued... piracy is why people still buy Sega Dreamcasts and some companys still release Sega Dreamcast games. Because people still use their dreamcast systems. Heck it's why sega just re-produced some dreamcasts they sold at their website not to long ago. Piracy has been a good thing for the Dreamcast... and is a good thing for the PSP. Otherwise either would of sold less hardware after it became apparent they wouldn't remain dominant. |
The Dreamcast didnt have single million seller worlwide .Soul Calibut was close with 0.97 million ,but that was all .Many 500K sellers though .
The PSP has already had a good amount of million sellers .Need for Speed Carbon ,Need for Speed Underground ,Battlefront II ,Everybodys Golf ,FFVII CC ,Metal Gear PO ,GTA Vice City ,GTA Liberty City ,Lumines ,Monster Hunter 2 ,Monster Hunter ,Tekken DR, Pro Evolution Soccer 6 ,Ridge Racers ,etc etc
I think piratery is doing a killing with the machine ,but I also think the tracking of the games isnt very correct.It just doesnt seem right that this week last year it sold 1.5 pieces of software and this year just one third of that with double the userbase .That just cant be .Many games are being sold at discounted prices and second hand and many gamers just wait for that .If we could see some shipped software figures it would become more clear .
